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sergeant steve pÉrez, age 60. 34-year veteran of the force was driving to work. he drove two and a half hours on sunday, pre-dawn, trying to find a safe way to get to work. and he drowned. he was caught in flood waters, and it took the police until this morning to recover his body. they knew he had perished but were not able to get his body. our thoughts are with the family of sergeant steve pÉrez, and the houston police department who have lost one of their own in these rescue efforts. if you do want to help, you can go to red cross.org or text "harvey" to 90999. it will automatically take a $10 donation and charge it to your phone bill. that's harvey to 90999. that brings this very busy hour to a close for me. i will see you right back here at 11:00 p.m. eastern. you can find me on facebook and instagram. thank you for watching. "deadline: white house" starts right now. >>> president trump says texas can handle anything. hello, everybody. i am mike barnicle, filling in for nicolle wallace. the country turns to the president today, who is in texas, as he faces
sergeant steve pÉrez, age 60. 34-year veteran of the force was driving to work. he drove two and a half hours on sunday, pre-dawn, trying to find a safe way to get to work. and he drowned. he was caught in flood waters, and it took the police until this morning to recover his body. they knew he had perished but were not able to get his body. our thoughts are with the family of sergeant steve pÉrez, and the houston police department who have lost one of their own in these rescue efforts. if...
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a 34-year veteran of the police force, sergeant steve perez. his wife is devastated and says that she hadn't wanted him to go into work that day. he said there was work to do. so here in houston, overnight, we expect these water rescues to continue. and the question will be, how long will this water be around? authorities say some homes could be inundated for up to a month. steve? >> gabe gutierrez on the ground in houston. thank you for that. meanwhile, the president, donald trump, he traveled to texas today. he praised the recovery efforts while meeting with state officials and emergency responders. trump was accompanied by the first lady melania trump. the head of fema warned of a long and frustrating recovery, president trump offered an optimistic assessment and said texas can hand anything. ? we want to do it better than ever before. we want to look at five years, ten years from now as this is the way to do it. this was of epic proportion. nobody has ever seen anything like this. >> trump had this message for texas governor greg abbott. >>
a 34-year veteran of the police force, sergeant steve perez. his wife is devastated and says that she hadn't wanted him to go into work that day. he said there was work to do. so here in houston, overnight, we expect these water rescues to continue. and the question will be, how long will this water be around? authorities say some homes could be inundated for up to a month. steve? >> gabe gutierrez on the ground in houston. thank you for that. meanwhile, the president, donald trump, he...
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one of the deaths in houston ignored by president trump is police sergeant steve perez who had been missing since sunday morning. >> we can't find him and once our dive team got there, it was too treacherous to go under and look for him. so we made a decision to leave officers there waiting until the morning because as much as we wanted to recover him last night, we could not put another one officer at risk for what we knew in our hearts would be a recovery mission. >> president trump did not mention sergeant perez today. and he has not tweeted about sergeant perez today and he has tweeted about some unrelated, idiotic trumpian things. hurricane harvey now a tropical storm has broken the record for the most rain of any storm in the continental united states ever. harvey could make a second landfall near houston tomorrow morning. the red cross says 17,000 people are in shelters across texas tonight. here's houston's mayor sylvester turner this afternoon. >> with respect to shelters, we have expanded our capacity. the reality is that not only are we providing shelter for houstonians but we're
one of the deaths in houston ignored by president trump is police sergeant steve perez who had been missing since sunday morning. >> we can't find him and once our dive team got there, it was too treacherous to go under and look for him. so we made a decision to leave officers there waiting until the morning because as much as we wanted to recover him last night, we could not put another one officer at risk for what we knew in our hearts would be a recovery mission. >> president...
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among those killed was a houston police officer, sergeant steve perez. the chief of police spoke about how he died and how he lived yesterday. >> unfortunately in the darkness sergeant perez drove to an underpass that's about 16 1/2 feet, drove into the water and he died in a flood. so, once our divers went out there, it was too tresh rouse to go under and look for him. so we made the decision to leave officers there waiting until the morning because as much as we wanted to recover him last night, we could not put more officers at risk. the wife had asked him not to go in. he was a sweet, gentle public servant and she tells me i told him not to go to work, didn't want hip to go and his response was "we've got work to do." >> and the rescues continue. the u.s. coast guard shared this video, hoisting a mother and daughter to safety on board their helicopter. overnight the flooding turned much worse in beaumont, texas. police found a mother who had been swept into a canal with a child. two policemen and a zodiac rescued them. the child survived, the mother
among those killed was a houston police officer, sergeant steve perez. the chief of police spoke about how he died and how he lived yesterday. >> unfortunately in the darkness sergeant perez drove to an underpass that's about 16 1/2 feet, drove into the water and he died in a flood. so, once our divers went out there, it was too tresh rouse to go under and look for him. so we made the decision to leave officers there waiting until the morning because as much as we wanted to recover him...
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among those killed, officer steve perez. >> his father-in-law, a korean war veteran from the army, told him not to go. the conditions were so bad. and his response was, we've got work to do. >> president trump and first lady melania trump traveled to texas for an update on the storm, stopping first in corpus christi for a meeting with state officials. >> this was of epic proportion. nobody has ever seen anything like this. and i want to say, working the governor and his entire team has been an honor for us. so thank you very much. and we won't say congratulations. we don't want to do that. we'll congratulated each other when it is all finished. >> the president then appeared this front of cheering supporters. he waved a texas flag making no mention of the victims of the hurricane. >> we are here to take care. it is going well. we're going to get you back and operating immediately. what a crowd, what a turnout. >> the president toured the operations center in austin where he received an uprate on the damage. >> probably there's never been anything so extensive, anything so historic in te
among those killed, officer steve perez. >> his father-in-law, a korean war veteran from the army, told him not to go. the conditions were so bad. and his response was, we've got work to do. >> president trump and first lady melania trump traveled to texas for an update on the storm, stopping first in corpus christi for a meeting with state officials. >> this was of epic proportion. nobody has ever seen anything like this. and i want to say, working the governor and his entire...